Alexander was born in Bonn (Germany) and obtained his Master degree at the University of Münster(WWU) in 2015 supervised by Professor Ryan Gilmour. After a research stay at the University of Oxford working with Professor Stuart Conway, he received aCiM-IMPRS Ph.D. fellowship of the Max Planck Institute and continued his doctoral studies in Münster under the supervision of Prof. Ryan Gilmour and Prof. Michael Schäfers at the WWU in the field of sugar chemistry and radioactive fluorination. After being awarded his Dr. rer. Nat in 2019, Alex remained in the Gilmour lab for a short postdoctoral research stay focusing on the synthesis of complex carbohydrate scaffolds. He joined the Burley group at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow in 2020 as a postdoctoral research associate working on the development of novel fluorinated phosphoramidites.
